# Bree LaPointe

> Software Engineer

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/bree

Back end developer and fan of Go, DevOps, and continuous testing.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Render
Jan 2025 – Present

### Software Engineer @ Render
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer, Team Lead @ Qualtrics
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Provo, Utah, United States
• Optimized a Go application to increase consumption rate from Kafka by 340%, costing half the engineering effort of the proposed rewrite.
• Devised a MongoDB live indexing strategy, which supported both current and future use cases, and saved the computing and filling of a new 99% unused native database index.
• Spearheaded AWS asset replication tooling, sparing 9 teams from duplicating work relocating up to 7 AWS technologies each.
• Mentored 2 intern, 2 new grad, and 4 mid-level engineers on operational tools, best practices for maintainable software, and career development.
• Founded the in-house standard system to continuously verify 16 teams' compliance with disaster recovery requirements.
• Created automated release test suites for 11 services, which catches 10 would-be customer facing bugs per month on average.

### Software Engineer II @ Qualtrics
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Provo, Utah Area
• Scripted no-downtime database reconfiguration, which was leveraged by 3 teams to update 168 instances.
• Automated infrastructure patching for 30 microservices and 25 database clusters by creating a modular and testable Bash script framework.
• Administered on-call training, including 6 chaos tests gamedays across 5 systems.

### Software Engineer I @ Qualtrics
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Provo, Utah Area
• Created custom Python tooling to create, increment, restore, and check for MongoDB database backups for standalone, replicated, and sharded deployments without customer impact, and has been the in-house standard for 21 teams for 4 years.
• Decreased backend service's annual outages by 91% and reduced hardware costs by 40% by selecting, training owners on, and migrating without downtime to a different datastore.

### Computer Science Research Assistant @ Wake Forest University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Winston-Salem, NC
Integrated knowledge from biological domain into a genetic algorithm to explore gene transcript interactions.

### Teacher's Assistant and Computer Science Tutor @ Wake Forest University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Wake Forest University
Assist students across a range of backgrounds and understandings. Supplement course material with individual support.

### Online Tutor @ Tutor.com
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015
Catered to a range of students and problems across middle school, high school, and college. Understood the student's concerns and remedied in a timely manner.


## Education
### Master of Science (M.S.) in Computer Science
Wake Forest University

### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Computer Science
High Point University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/breeldev
- Website: https://breel.dev

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Last updated: 2026-04-01